Here's How Chick-fil-A Makes A Perfectly Crispy Chicken Sandwich - Southern Living.

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We hand bread all of our chicken in the restaurant every single day. So we start with
this seasoned chicken breast fillets. We use this one step. We kind of run our finger through
and we flatten out this chicken and what this does for us is it makes this nice flat fillet.
This is going to cook easier for us. It's going to cook more evenly and it's going to make sure
that we're covering that bun or the biscuit, whatever we're putting the chicken on. This is
just eggs and milk that we use just to make sure that this flour really adheres to the chicken
and gets that nice crispy coating that we love. So we just do a nice little dip in here.
Give it a little shake. This part's easy but this is where the muscle comes in. We say that you want
to lift your heels off the floor because you want to get even more muscle into this product. So what
we're going to do is we're just going to get our seasoned flour. This is just a seasoned flour that
we're going to put on top of our fillets and we want to press this flour in. We want to press it
pretty firmly and so that's when there's heels coming off the floor. You're using some calf
muscles and we flip this over and we're going to do that on each side of the chicken. So think
about doing this for an entire shift. Our team members get their workout in. So the most important
part is frying the chicken. We're going to use this pressure fryer here and one of the most
important things to do when you're putting this into the fryer is we're going to make sure the
rough side of the chicken is down. This is going to ensure that we don't get a little pocket of
oil because these like to curl up a little when they're frying. Another step we like to take
before we put them in the oil is we kind of do a little dip first and kind of pick them up and
then put them in the oil. This is a great way for us to make sure that those don't stick to the
fryer basket. And then we tighten this as tight as we can. This is where the pressure comes in
and thankfully we have timers on these so all this is automatic for us. Then they go into our pan.
And that is our beautiful fried chicken fillets.
